Tank Girl was hilarious, drove a tank, farted, picked her nose and swore like a sailor with a stubbed toe – and she was a feminist landmark in comic book history. Tatum Flynn explains how this original punk rebel inspired her anarchic, irreverant kids books set in Hell
As a kid, I never thought of myself as a bookworm. Probably because “bookworm” is such an unappealing word. (Petition right now to change it to something much better, like bookdragon, or superbookhero.) After all, I did all the usual things kids do: climbed trees, fell off my bike trying to do wheelies, made up inventive nicknames for teachers behind their backs, ran away from bullies, tried to look cool to my friends by using some swear word even though I didn’t know what it meant, acted in school plays, baked a lot of cakes that didn’t rise, learned to shoot a pistol, got in trouble (those last two were not linked, honest).
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